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S. D. Bob "Snake" Plissken was a former U.S. Green Berets lieutenant who served in the "Black Blight" unit. He was deployed to the Soviet Union as part of World War III between a Sino-Soviet alliance and the United States, where his actions in (then-named) Leningrad and Siberia resulted in him being awarded two Purple Hearts; at the time, he was the youngest serviceman to be decorated by the ...
Doubleday's films included Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) and Escape from New York (1981), both directed by John Carpenter. [1] In the special edition Escape from New York DVD commentary, Kurt Russell credits Doubleday's performance as setting the tone of the movie.
Escape from New York was released on LaserDisc 10 times between 1983 and 1998. [26] A 1994 Collector's Edition includes a commentary track by John Carpenter and Kurt Russell that is still included on more recent DVD releases of the film. [27]
Kurt Vogel Russell (born March 17, 1951) is an American actor. At the age of 12, he began acting in the Western TV series The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (1963–1964). In the late 1960s, he signed a ten-year contract with The Walt Disney Company, where he starred as Dexter Riley in films such as The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969), Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972), and The Strongest ...
Escape from L.A. (stylized on-screen as John Carpenter's Escape from L.A.) is a 1996 American post-apocalyptic action film co-written, co-scored, and directed by John Carpenter, co-written and produced by Debra Hill and Kurt Russell, with Russell also starring as Snake Plissken.
Kurt Russell has a habit of “crossing paths” with “killers,” according to his two stepchildren.. Kate and Oliver Hudson, who were both raised by the Escape from New York actor along with ...
During the midst of his professional wrestling career, Baker appeared in many films from time to time, most notably during the late 1970s and early 1980s. He appeared as a fighter in Jackie Chan's The Big Brawl (1980) and as Kurt Russell's gladiatorial opponent in John Carpenter's Escape from New York (1981). [3]
It stars Kurt Russell, Steven Seagal, Halle Berry, John Leguizamo, Oliver Platt, Joe Morton, David Suchet and B.D. Wong. It depicts the rescue of an airliner hijacked by terrorists, by a small team placed on the plane in mid-flight. The film was released in the United States on March 15, 1996, by Warner Bros.